Biennale Architettura 2023
Image: Demas Nwoko, Dominican Chapel, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1977. (Image credit: Andrew Esiebo)
ARCHITECTURE
Demas Nwoko
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia entitled The Laboratory of the Future (Giardini and Arsenale, 20th May - 26th November, 2023). Demas Nwoko was at the forefront of Nigeria’s Modern Art movement. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate African subject matter in most of his works. In the 1960s, he was a member of the Mbari Club of Ibadan, a committee of burgeoning Nigerian and foreign artists.
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Prix Women In Motion 2023
Image: Rosângela Rennó, sans titre (famille drama queen), série Noces [Nuptias], médias mixtes, 2017.
Avec l’aimable autorisation de l’artiste. ©: Gabriela Carrera.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rosângela Rennó
Prix Women In Motion
Kering and Les Rencontres d'Arles will present the Prix Women In Motion 2023 to the Brazilian photographer Rosângela Rennó. Born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, she currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Interested in "the way the system tries to erase or manipulate links with the past", the photographer appropriates and transforms archival photographic material into an art installation or a book of photography. Her work is a detailed exploration of time, of forgetting, and the social and psychological changes that affect memory.
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Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Image: Pascal Leyder, Sans titre, Techniques mixtes sur papier, 40 x 53 cm. Courtesy Escale Nomade, Paris. Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain. Crédit photo André Morin
ART
Pascal Leyder
Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
The Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain was awarded to Pascal Leyder. Belgian artist born in 1988 in Bastogne. He arrived at La "S" Grand Atelier, in Vielsalm in Belgium, in 2008, following a school internship and now regularly attends his plastic art studio. He also participates in the "Choolers Noise Project", in which he draws live, accompanied by noise music. His drawings are regularly published in collective works of illustration and graphic design, notably by Le Dernier Cri and Frémok editions.
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Prix Drawing Now 2023
Image: Suzanne Husky, Quels géo-ingénieurs voulons nous ?, 60 x 60 cm, 2022
© Courtesy de l’artiste et de la galerie Alain Gutharc
ART
Suzanne Husky
Prix Drawing Now
The Prix Drawing Now 2023 was awarded to Suzanne Husky. Born in 1975 in France, she lives and works in San Francisco, USA and is represented by Galerie Alain Gutharc. Anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal and ecofeminist, Suzanne Husky is a key figure in an art linked to the living and the political. Folklore, crafts, tales, recipes, rituals and forgotten knowledge are her preferred means to reconnect with the pre-capitalist world and with the living. Inspired by William Morris, Suzanne Husky mixes craftsmanship (ceramics, textiles, tapestry...) and art (performance, sound, video...) without any hierarchy.
PICTO LAB / EXPÉRIMENTER L’IMAGE 2023
Image: Thomas Paquet, Horizons 1. © Thomas Paquet
PHOTOGRAPHY
Thomas Paquet
PICTO LAB / EXPÉRIMENTER L’IMAGE
Thomas Paquet is the winner of the PICTO LAB / EXPÉRIMENTER L’IMAGE, proposed by Picto Foundation with its partners, the prize is aimed at photographers whose work explores new forms of photography involving specific skills, innovative, experimental or unusual. The jury chose Thomas Paquet's project for its approach systematized and artisanal light variations, which he develops through meticulous devices, always pushing further the encounter between light, space and time. Franco-Canadian artist born in 1979, Thomas Paquet questions the nature of time, the structure of its uninterrupted flow and the dynamics of its movement.
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Theodora Niemeijer Prize
Image: Sara Sejin Chang, Four Months, Four Million Light Years, 2020. Film installation, Color, Sound, 34min. Watercolor on paper, Textile and Paper banners. Courtesy of the artist.
ART
Sara Sejin Chang
Theodora Niemeijer Prize
Sara Sejin Chang is the winner of the Theodora Niemeijer Prize. Born in 1977 in Busan, South Korea and adopted by Dutch parents, she binds her personal story to her artistic practice. Noted, her video and textile installation presented at the 2022 Busan Biennale, Four Months, four million light years, recounts in pictures, drawings, poems and songs painful moments in the history of her native land: the Korean War (1950-1953) and the involvement of more than 3,000 Dutch soldiers in the conflict, the trafficking of Korean children, very active from the 1970s to the 1980s in the Busan region and the eradication of indigenous shamanic cultures by European Christian missionaries at different times.
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Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize
Image: Andre Wee. Courtesy the artist.
ART
Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize
The Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize is dedicated to digital art and offers artists in Asia a unique opportunity to develop their artistic concepts into a new piece of artwork. The award is given to digital artists aged 21 to 40 based on proposals related to the themes of Sustainability, Future Cities and Digital Disruption. This year's six winners are: Andre Wee and Chan Wan Kyn from Singapore; Carla Chan, Jamela Law and Natalie Wong from Hong Kong; and India's Viraag Desai. They pitched digital fashion collaborations, visualisations of dating app data and retro cities of the future.
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La Prairie Art Award 2023
Image: Thea Anamara Perkins, Bondi Beach, 2023. Acrylic on board, 30.5 x 40.5 cm,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, La Prairie Art Award 2023.
ART
Thea Anamara Perkins
La Prairie Art Award
Thea Anamara Perkins is the recipient of the 2023 La Prairie Art Award. Drawing inspiration for her work from her family archive of photographs, Perkins turns family snapshots into tender portraits, while taking charge of the representation of First Nations people and asserting the agency of those she depicts. A partnership between the Art Gallery and Swiss luxury skincare house La Prairie, the La Prairie Art Award comprises the acquisition of artwork for the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ collection and an international artist residency.
